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A hilltop in the middle of a large city in the early evening. To the left, near one of the trees, if you squint you can see the image of a statue. Pioneer Mother is “A memorial to mothers who made the arduous trip west to seek better lives for their families, the 13-foot bronze statue depicts a woman perched sidesaddle on a mount, holding an infant, her expression reflecting grim determination and exhaustion. She is flanked by two men with rifles and a weary pack horse.” Can you guess where this statue is located? Maybe somewhere near a famous trail leading settlers to the west?
In recent weeks I have been working on a project called Reflected Petals. This has involved taking a top-down image of a flower and then using mirror distortions to create a symmetric design. If the starting image has plenty of detail and some colour contrast you get some really interesting results.
I’ll eventually get around to sharing the outcomes of the project here on Flickr (though I have already published pictures like this over the years).
Ironically this particular image is not part of the main project, but something I did last night when I was bored and desperately trying to think of something to do for Sliders Sunday today. I should have really been going to bed…
Normally I would use the Distort > Mirror filter in Affinity, but here I used the Chromebook running an Android app called Mirrorlab. This program is great fun to play with (if you like that sort of thing), but you soon drift far away from visual reality…
This image is based on a picture of an ox-eye daisy that I published here seven months ago. The quickest way to get a suitable starting image on to the Chromebook last night was to download it from Flickr. I’ll publish a link to the in-camera image as usual in my first comment.
I like this result because of all the woven petals - that’s not an effect you would get in Affinity. Like a lot of these distorted images, most of the beauty comes from the original flower, and the repetition and distortion encourage you to look more closely at what nature has already achieved.
I hope you enjoy it anyway. Normal, undistorted service will resume tomorrow :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
The Lily Pond at Monet's Garden in Giverny.
Hope you have a lovely day! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind support.
© Melissa Post 2016
From the right - not visible in this picture - a large low cloud front approached, reflecting the light of the setting sun and covered the landscape with an exceptionally soft and warm light.
Von rechts - auf diesem Bild nicht sichtbar - näherte sich eine grosse tiefstehende Wolkenfront, die das Licht der untergehenden Sonne reflektierte und die Landschaft in ein ausssergewöhnlich weiches und warmes Licht hüllte.
Definition of REFLECT (verb): surface: show the image of something; show the existence or nature of something; think about something carefully.
Our ship was "sailing" again distorting the mountain reflection in the fiord.
PS This one chosen for a small conference booklet
After my first night in Florida I woke up very early. So I went to the beach and watched the sun rise. It was so beautiful! Thank you, jet lag!!!
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You've seen this watchband before, as I had previously photographed it for our "Curves" theme on November 14, 2022 (and I also photographed other parts of this Casio watch, one for 2022's "Redux" and December 2023's "Bokeh" theme).
The entire casing and the strap are "ion plated", as Casio calls it, and the watch shimmers in the nicest iridescent rainbow colours, with gold as a base colour (pretty posh, I must admit). Its Milanese strap also has an unusual structure that looks a little different from a regular Milanese strap, as it almost resembles woven or knitted fabric.
As I had already photographed the strap as a rainbow wave for "Curves", I had to think of something different for our "Mesh" theme. So I rolled the strap up and placed one end of the strap above the other, with the clock face down. I noticed that the mesh was reflected in the strap's polished clasp, and this gave me my image idea: lots of bokeh from the strap, but a small, reflected part of the mesh in focus because that's our theme after all. And: I also wanted to get the "Stainless Steel" lettering in focus.
My first attempts yesterday, taken with the Laowa 2x Ultra Macro lens, didn't quite yield the desired result. At F2.8, I got the bokeh, but in the clasp, either the lettering was in focus or the mesh's reflection. And at a higher aperture value, I might have gotten both in focus, but including the strap.
So today, for a final attempt, I switched lenses and did some stacking. I am happy to say that I also learned something new about the focus differential settings of the in-camera stacking function. The focus differential ranges from 1 to 10, and it determines the difference in focus position between shots. "5" is the sweet spot, as it yields good results for most scenes, but here, it already resulted in a too wide focus range. So I checked out "1", a setting I have never used before, and it worked: sharp lettering, sharp mesh reflection, and lots of strap bokeh :)
HMM, Everyone!
One morning I walked into our bedroom and the sun was shining so brightly and reflecting its light onto the opposite wall. It seemed magical to me! The curtain is an addition to a special corner! The quality of the image is not good but I thought I would post it anyway.
I am sorry that I have not been around much but I was having such trouble with Flickr that I decided to cool it for a couple of days!
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I was taught to never just take a photo of someone else's art, but that is always OK to photograph art when presenting something other than just the art itself. It is always the point to see something with a fresh eye.
I just love a great reflection and doesn't matter from water or ice or mirror or windows... I always seek for these opportunities. So much so that I forgot to even capture ducks close by. So taken by the movements and colours. This was not achieved by intentional movement of my camera but by nature's water movement.
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